# Lisgrew, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Lios Gníomha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 208,322 m² (20.83 ha, 51.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 36,197 m² (3.62 ha, 8.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Errigal Trough, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/errigal-trough.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Anketell Grove, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,278 people lived in 400 households in the Anketell Grove electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40334 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171355 - Centre: latitude 54.358577, longitude -6.981676 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisgrew, from 29,729 m² (2.97 ha, 7.35 acres) to 75,406 m² (7.54 ha, 18.63 acres); 2 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5987465: 75,406 m² (7.54 ha, 18.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5987465.md - Parcel 5579163: 36,197 m² (3.62 ha, 8.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5579163.md - Parcel 5064539: 29,729 m² (2.97 ha, 7.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5064539.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Lisgrew in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 15 Oct 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560413: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission for the development will consist of the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, an associated mechanical waste water treatment system and percolation area, use existing entrance at public roadside to access a new site entrance from existing private lane, boundaries, landscaping, hardstanding's, drainage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560413/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460336: Refused. Permission. permission to erect a new single storey warehouse building with a two story section including offices / admin and staff facilities, installing an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, installing a new surface water drainage system including open swale, creating new staff car parking area, creating new vehicle access and a new site entrance onto public road together with all associated site works, Significant Further information relates to submitted, Traffic Impact Assessment, RSA stage 1&2 audit, Photomontage, Site Options, External Lighting Report and proposed drawings. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460336/0 - 24 May 2021, Monaghan County Council 21286: N/a. Retention. permission to retain existing building used for the occasional service and maintenance of motor vehicles and also the hardened area which is occasionally used for the temporary storage of motor vehicles together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21286/0 - 4 Jul 2019, Monaghan County Council 19307: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the replacement of an existing dwelling and outbuildings with a two storey dwelling house with single storey element, new entrance piers and gates, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19307/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisgrew. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO003-036: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO003-036----. : Located at the N end of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 30.4m WNW-ESE; 28m NNE-SSW) that slopes down slightly to the N, which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1m) separated by a fosse (Wth 2m) from a larger outer bank (Wth 3m) and second external fosse (Wth 2m), although the external fosse is absent N-E. There are entrances at SW and N, but the original entrance through the inner (Wth 4.6m) and outer (Wth 3.1m) banks with causeways over the inner (Wth 4m) outer (Wth 4m) fosses and is at ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 25 July 2017 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lisgrew. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Lisgrew, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lisgrew. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisgrew.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisgrew.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisgrew.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lisgrew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghaliskeevan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghaliskeevan.md - Curkin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/curkin.md - Lisavargy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisavargy.md - Shanco: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/shanco-171636.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisgrew - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/lisgrew